Writing Quotes · Page 330

I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.

— Alison Sudol

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

— Stephen King

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

— Neil Gaiman

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

— Virginia Woolf

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

— Alex Kapranos

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

— James Thurber

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

— Andy Rooney

Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when…

— Greta Gerwig

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will…

— Ernest Hemingway

There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as…

— Hugh Hefner

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing…

— Kate Zambreno

I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or…

— Ethan Hawke

A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites…

— Fabrizio Moreira

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

— Italo Calvino

For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an…

— Mameve Medwed

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for…

— Jeff Kinney

...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write…

— Michio Kaku

So many bands write about the same s - -. It gets real boring after a while. I want to keep it…

— Mitch Lucker

My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not…

— Kinky Friedman

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them…

— Dorothy Parker

You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading…

— Rick Riordan

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've…

— Ornette Coleman

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

— Anne Frank

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

— Anonymous

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

— Joel Spolsky

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

— Amitava Kumar

I am always trying to stick my emotions into people and things with no emotion.

— Needa Muy

“He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.”

— Dorothy B. Hughes

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

— Charles Bukowski

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.

— Vivian Gornick

“I worked and now I can write, Experience is everything.”

— Andrew M. Gallagher

“Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.”

— Phyllis Theroux

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

— Li-Young Lee

“Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.”

— A.E. Croft

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

— Simon Bird

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

— David Guterson

Plotting and scheming a come up for this vision I call a dream..

— Raghib Clitso

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

— John Cheever